United States v. Hamdan

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• finding “no precedent comprehensively extending equal protection . . . rights to noncitizens tried by military commissions, either inside or outside the United States”
• “[A] legitimate government interest exists” because “Congress enacted the M.C.A. to create a forum and a process by which to bring to justice foreign unlawful combatants whose purpose is to terrorize American citizens.”
• Breyer, Kennedy, Souter, and Ginsburg, JJ., concurring
• Breyer, Kennedy, Souter, and Ginsburg, JJ., concurring
• listing six significant regional counter-terrorism conventions
• listing six significant regional counter-terrorism conventions

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